News Archive
Browse retained market reporting from the past 30 days.
Coinspress
Tokenized equities have largely proved they can attract traders. The harder test is whether decentralized finance can safely lend against them.
Crypto Briefing
The surge in traditional asset trading on crypto platforms highlights a shift towards decentralized finance, challenging conventional market structures. Stock and commodity trading on crypto platforms surges to $778B in August.
Crypto news
Compromised keys, not broken code, now drive the majority of crypto theft, and North Korea is cashing the checks.
Crypto Economy
The CoinMarketCap Altcoin Season Index closed at 34 points on September 2. The threshold of 75 defines the condition for a full altcoin season—requiring at least 75% of the top 100 cryptocurrencies (excluding stablecoins and wrapped tokens) to outperform Bitcoin over the 90-day window.
Crypto Economy
Securitize and Dubai's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority signed a MoU to advance tokenization in the United Arab Emirates. The agreement aims to attract institutional talent and define how tokenized financial products should operate under Dubai's regulatory framework. The total value of tokenized assets grew 2% over 30 days to reach $38.5 billion, with 3.
Crypto Briefing
Bitwise's rapid deposit growth highlights increasing investor confidence in DeFi's real-world asset integration, challenging traditional finance. Bitwise Premium RWA Vault (PAPY) reaches $8M in deposits within one day of launch.
Dailycoin
Exploring how portable, privacy-preserving credentials could reshape identity across the decentralized financial ecosystem.
The Currency Analytics
Full Sail is done. The decentralized finance protocol built on the Sui blockchain announced it's winding down after an attacker pulled roughly $91,000 from its vaults — a breach traced back to vulnerabilities inside oracle provider Switchboard.
Crypto Economy
Cryptocurrency has evolved far beyond its early image as a niche digital experiment. What began with Bitcoin has grown into a broad industry spanning payments, investing, online gambling, decentralized finance, tokenized assets, artificial intelligence, and financial infrastructure.
Crypto Briefing
Robinhood Chain's rapid growth in tokenized value highlights the potential for decentralized finance to reshape traditional equity markets. Robinhood Chain total tokenized value surpasses $88M just weeks after mainnet launch.
CryptoSlate
CME and ICE told Washington in May that Hyperliquid's pseudonymous, always-on markets could let sanctioned state actors circumvent enforcement. On Aug. 31, an Arkham analysis reviewed by CoinDesk found that wallets linked to North Korea's Lazarus Group had sold more than $30 million of Bitcoin through Hyperliquid over the prior three weeks.
Crypto Economy
KuCoin and other DeFi platforms are grappling with a 2026 marked by 32 price manipulation exploits, a historical record according to TRM Labs. The most prominent case was the Tectonic exploit on August 30: an attacker inflated the price of TONIC roughly 100 times in 20 minutes and borrowed approximately $75 million.
Crypto Briefing
Stripe's strategic acquisitions could redefine digital commerce infrastructure, potentially positioning it as a dominant force in the AI economy. Stripe's acquisition spree mirrors early Google strategy, with a crypto twist.
Crypto news
Prospect Markets has signed a definitive agreement with Crypto.com's U.S.
CryptoSlate
DEFT missed the required closing-price streak but could qualify for another 180 days as its consolidation option remains unused.
Crypto Briefing
StonkBrokers' NFT-stock integration on Robinhood Chain could redefine asset ownership, but regulatory scrutiny may challenge its sustainability. StonkBrokers NFT collection enables stock-token transfers on Robinhood Chain.
Cryptopolitan
DeFi Development (DFDV) is offering up to $20 million of CHAD Stock, a perpetual preferred paying a 13% annual dividend in daily installments.
NewsBTC
Tokenized real-world assets and equities collateral have reached a monthly high, according to DeFiLlama RWA data, adding to signs that tokenization remains one of crypto's more durable institutional themes. The milestone comes as investors continue to track the growth of on-chain exposure to traditional assets, including treasuries, credit products, funds, equities, and collateralized instruments.
Crypto Economy
HINC, Neuberger Berman and Securitize's high-yield tokenized fund, debuts on Loopscale on Solana as collateral in DeFi credit. Eligible users can deposit HINC as collateral to borrow USDG, the stablecoin issued by Paxos, without having to sell their position in the fund. Standard Chartered projects that assets deployed in DeFi could reach $2.
Crypto Briefing
The CLARITY Act's progress could reshape U.S. digital asset regulation, influencing market dynamics and regulatory clarity significantly. Rep. Downing backs CLARITY Act to define digital assets, pending Senate action.